A literature that pretends to be regional fails, from the beginning, for having narrow vision. What are the particularities, if not aggravating? And how can the central problem of a work be relevant if not universal? The obsession with regional affirmation produces, if at all, works of inferior quality: they lower the described region if they involve it in banalities and deprive it of comprehensive issues. When a real problem, if exploited by a great artist, will naturally elevate his people by placing them in a context that arouses empathy and universal respect.
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